The police officer who shot and killed a man who was holding an air weapon in the street outside his ex-partner's house said he "honestly believed" he was acting in self-defence.

James Carlo Wilson called Northumbria Police in the early hours of March 29 2016 to demand armed response officers come to see him, saying he had a 9mm handgun and would shoot officers who arrived.

Armed officers had shouted "seven times" for the 24-year-old to put down the gun he was carrying before they fired first a plastic bullet then, five seconds later, a round from a rifle which hit him in the chest.

Mr Wilson died in Newcastle’s RVI hospital three days later and the weapon he was carrying has since been revealed to be a "sub optimal air pistol".